A Message From The Queen.

[Jock Scot]

Certainly all true, and according to accounts I've been given, in WWII the Soviet's top army sniper and air combat flyer, plus many other combat aviators, were women as well. Historically women were recruited when a country was backed against the wall and then told they had to step down when the danger had passed. But they did not serve in combat on the Allied side in WWII, that was my point.

I don't wish to be pedantic here, but try telling that to the WAAFS at he Ventnor radar station, or the RAF stations in the South of England as the German bombs were raining down on them, or to the WAACS(later WRACS) as they "manned" the Anti Aircraft guns between 1939 and 1945. WW2 was probably the only war in history where the civilians and the women of the services of Great Britain were in the "front line" and with the greatest of respect, I think you are being rather grudging with your definition of "combat".

I seem to recall that Her Majesty was commissioned in 1945.

[macwilkin]

I don't wish to be pedantic here, but try telling that to the WAAFS at he Ventnor radar station, or the RAF stations in the South of England as the German bombs were raining down on them, or to the WAACS(later WRACS) as the "manned" the Anti Aircraft guns between 1939 and 1945. WW2 was probably the only war in history where the civilians and the women of the services of Great Britain were in the "front line" and with the greatest of respect, I think you are being rather grudging with your definition of "combat".

I seem to recall that Her Majesty was commissioned in 1945.

Not to mention the nurses who served at field hospitals, Jock. A number of American nurses were captured by the Japanese in the Philippines in 1942, and suffered along with their male comrades in the POW camps.

T.

[Jock Scot]

Not to mention the nurses who served at field hospitals, Jock. A number of American nurses were captured by the Japanese in the Philippines in 1942, and suffered along with their male comrades in the POW camps.

T.

.....or Singapore, or Malta, or Tobruk, or........the list is a long and proud one.



Lest we forget.

[macwilkin]

.....or Singapore, or Malta, or Tobruk, or........the list is a long and proud one.



Lest we forget.

Indeed, Jock. It is a long and proud one.

When push comes to shove, we (The USA) are lucky to have such "kith and kin" that know the price of freedom.

T.

[Lallans]

To return to the original point, the Queen of Great Britian and Northern Ireland, and of Canada and numerous other places, served as a humble woman truck driver during the war. She could have had some more glamourous and exciting job, but instead she chose to be directly involved in the heavy lifting part of the war effort. I have seen people who laughed at the idea that she really did this get jumped on (Brit: severely corrected) by people who were actually there and the radio story had particular meaning to me for that reason.